Move up and down through a wrapped line

Move up and down through a wrapped line

[Philip]

Is it possible to make Emacs emulate the behavior of modern text
editors with regard to wrapped lines -- that is, the Up and Down keys
move the cursor to one part of the wrapped line and then to the other?
For example, if the cursor is at position 0 on the wrapped line:

^abcd efgh abcd efgh abcd efgh -/
abcd efgh

then pressing Down will move it to the first part character of the
second fold of the line:

abcd efgh abcd efgh abcd efgh -/
^abcd efgh

Re: Move up and down through a wrapped line

[hjuvi]

The behaviour you are expecting is the actual one for me.
But this is quite new I believe. It used to skip the wrapped lines.

My version is: GNU Emacs 23.1.1

Re: Move up and down through a wrapped line

[Lowell Gilbert]

Philip <phil.ganchev@gmail.com> writes:

> Is it possible to make Emacs emulate the behavior of modern text
> editors with regard to wrapped lines -- that is, the Up and Down keys
> move the cursor to one part of the wrapped line and then to the other?

This depends on the setting of "line-move-visual".
I'm not sure when it was introduced, but its default value 
became non-nil (the behaviour you want) in version 23.1.

Re: Move up and down through a wrapped line

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philip <phil.ganchev@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 00:20:38 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> Is it possible to make Emacs emulate the behavior of modern text
> editors with regard to wrapped lines -- that is, the Up and Down keys
> move the cursor to one part of the wrapped line and then to the other?

This is the default in the latest versions, so upgrade.

Re: Move up and down through a wrapped line

[Philip]

On Apr 7, 1:37 pm, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Philip <phil.ganc...@gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 00:20:38 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > Is it possible to make Emacs emulate the behavior of modern text
> > editors with regard to wrapped lines -- that is, the Up and Down keys
> > move the cursor to one part of the wrapped line and then to the other?
>
> This is the default in the latest versions, so upgrade.

Thanks everyone. My department server is using Emacs 21.3 from 2002!